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May 8, 2022- IS Academy- Battlefields -1702 Hours

(Main theme is Heaven's Divide from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker)

"That's it, that's everybody! Keep pushing!" Kenneth yelled, encouraging the rest of the forty students to continue their sprints.

In the past few days of Kenneth's training sessions, several of the girls in the Uchigane IS armor were started to catch up with Personal IS holders. Getting rather "ant-y" about their privileges, they pushed themselves even further. Even though Kenneth was in the Working Class suits for STARIS, he still out-competed the Personal IS holders, but only by a small amount thanks to his training.

Stopping at the last sprint, Kenneth checked his timer on how fast the group was going. Everybody was under forty-five seconds. "And that's it for tonight ladies and gentleman. Get back to study for the exams."

The group of forty looked at each other. Some laughed as other walked over and hugged each other, high-fiving as well. Kenneth let out a small smile as his armor disappeared.

While the rest of the students walked/floated over to the storage area, the Personal IS users dematerialized their suits and walked over to Kenneth.

"So how about a nice little dinner before we hit the books again?" Rin suggested.

"That sounds good. Hopefully the cafeteria will be serving something good." Ichika smiled.

"I've… Got something else to think about guys. I'll catch up at the cafeteria later, alright?"

Ichika, Charles and the girls shrugged as they started walking back to their respected lockers rooms as Kenneth turned back to face the skies above. A mellow reddish hue, with dashes of dark purple, blue and orange. He sighed as he started to make his way to the blenchers on the sides of the battle.

The dreams are becoming more vivid but… What exactly does it mean? A descending white angel, sandy beaches and calm waters. It can't be Coronado Beach… So where is this? Kenneth continued to scratch his hand about the location until he eventually gave up, standing back up.

Soon, this curse upon my heart will be lifted. Hopefully, if the implantation of the synthetic arm went well.

2023 Hours- IS Academy- Room 1044

The wispy sounds of pencil rubbing on paper were heard from Kenneth's room, followed by the tapping of plastic. Kenneth grunted slightly as he checked his answer with the books correct answer. Frowning he flung his pencil at a nearby wall before returning to his laptop and tapping away at some online game.

Soft taps bounced from the door as Kenneth didn't bother to look over. "Who is it?" he said, still absorbed into his laptop.

"Just Charles… Do you mind? I mean if you're still studying…"

As if … Fucking physics. Kenneth mentally thought before saying. "Nope, come right in!"

Charles opened the door, her first time in Kenneth's room. A simple setup of his bed against the walls with the windows adjacent to them, and the provided desk for school work was close by as well. It was a very simple setup, fitting for Kenneth's military background.

Charles slowly approached Kenneth, seeing that he stopped midway through the practice problems. Her gaze then shifted to the game that he was playing. From what she saw, there was a stick-hand thing in a cube like world. A blocky looking cow walked infront of Kenneth's character.

"Uuuhh, Kenneth? What are you doing?"

"Playing Minecraft." Kenneth said, rather absentminded.

"What's a Minecraft?"

"Some game… It's kinda like Legos but more stuff to do and whatnot." Charles just stood there, unsure of what to say next. She decided to walk over to Kenneth's bed and sat down.

"Our match is coming up." Charles said, trying to spark a conversation as Kenneth closed the game at swerved back to Charles.

"Yeah, it is… I've seen you train with Ichika and all. I think you guys got some good chemistry."

"Why th-thank you!" Charles blushed slightly, with a shy look on her face. Kenneth just shook his head.

"To be honest, whoever you two go up against, you'll be fine. Just trust each other." Charles nodded in response as she asked. "So what's exactly the history between Orimura-sensei and The Three?"

Kenneth's eyes hardened as he got up and locked the door. Not turning back to Charles, he said. "You really wish to know huh?"

"If you can't talk about it-"

"No, no. It's fine, but I cannot allow Ichika to know." Charles nodded.

"Ok so it was…"

Several years ago- Offshore STARIS base- 1422 Hours

Mélissa Armén stood in the new test bed IS armor as she flexed the joints and gauntlets. The machine wasn't as chunkily as the First Generation models or the recent Second Generation models. Grey fins hung to the back of the machine as the gauntlets and legging were like a standard IS mech. Testing the mobility of the arms and leg, it felt like an extension of her body, unlike the other test bed models but was nothing compared to the Black Knight IS. Cracking her neck alittle, she took off to the skies feeling the wind pass by body.

"So how is the next gen armor?" asked a familiar voice. It was Chifuyu Orimura from the ground control. Wearing a STARIS jumpsuit, she gazed at Mélissa flying around.

"Things are going fine. It's amazing how Janus gets these things to be a generation better than the current IS."

Chifuyu chuckled slightly as she deployed her own IS, the Kurazakura, as she started to walk towards the middle of the testing grounds. Taking out the Yukihira Type 1, she slid her legs out into a kendo ready position.

"Alright then, Armén engage!"

"Mélissa Armén. Attacking!" She yelled, materializing an IS broadsword as the IS dive bombed at Chifuyu, as holding the Yukihira slightly up. As Mélissa vertically slashed at Chifuyu, it was blocked by the raised Yukihira as Mélissa boosted back, readying herself.

"Not bad... Not bad at all." Chifuyu commented.

"Thank you ma'am."

Just as the two were about to engage again, the alarms started blaring as both of them looked to the skies.

"Attention all STARIS Members! Phantom Task IS troopers are on approach to the base! All hands, prepare for Anti-IS procedures!"

Chifuyu looked over to Mélissa holding the Yukihira at her head level. "Do what you can with the prototype. If you can't, then fall back."

Mélissa smirked. "Some live ammo rounds then huh?" She scanned over a weapons screen for the prototype IS. Attack drones? Like a funnel for Gundams? Strange but…

"PT Troopers approaching in three… two… one…!"

Fifteen Phantom Task Troopers flew overhead in a standard V-formation. Armed with IS assault and battle rifles, they peppered the training grounds with concentrated fire at the prototype and Kurazakura ISs. The shields hissed and shinned as the bullets deflected off.

"Get ready…" Chifuyu growled as she lowered her stance. "GO!"

"Go, attack drones!" yelled Mélissa as four parts of the back wings of her IS broke off and fell towards the invading PT troopers. Zipping from side to side, Mélissa felt her body become slightly rigid as she controlled the attack drones follow and fire at the enemy troops. Blast, I can't move while controlling these things…

As the PT troopers fired at the incoming attack drones, one pilot's shield dropped and failed as their armor disappeared and she fell to the ground. STARIS support grounds deployed their own Worker Class mechs to retrieve the fallen troops.

"Gather back our forces! Don't let one of ours get captured!" yelled the leader PT trooper as she concentrated fire at the attack drones. The first one spurted and blew up from the fire as the rest flew back to Mélissa.

Just then three PT troopers armors were destroyed as their pilots fell to the ground. "Captain! It's the Leader of the Three!"

"What?!" The Kurazakura boosted and dashed in random directions, all towards different PT troopers as one of them boosted towards it with a CQC IS knife. With an upper-ward slash followed by a horizontal slash, the PT IS shattered, as the enemy fell to the ground.

Holding the Yukihira to the side, Chifuyu glared at the remaining troops.

"The hell are you people staring for?! Fire!" The PT troopers fired their rifles at Kurazakura, as one of the PT troopers materialized an IS rocket launcher and fired.

Front-flipping and boosting down, Chifuyu easily dodged the incoming attacks as she closed in on the rest of the PT troopers as she made a quick boost up, slashing from bottom up, as the one of the PT troopers IS dematerialized from heavy damage. With a horizontal slash to her left, another trooper started free falling.

Mélissa's combat drones flew about, taking down another trooper as the drones were running low on energy as they returned back to their spots on the wings. One of the troopers decided to close in on Mélissa yelped slightly, throwing her right arm at the incoming trooper as she was immobilized. A transparent bubble-like shield manifested from the gauntlet of her right hand, but like the combat drones before, she couldn't move.

Seriously? What is this? I'm doomed if I can't move. Taking her hand away, Mélissa materialized a short sword as she quickly took advantage of the disabled trooper, hacking off her arm gauntlets and wings as the IS sputtered and started to fall.

The PT trooper growled, sending off a whistle.

Present Day

Charles looked rather surprised as Kenneth suddenly ended the tale. "So? What happened?"

Kenneth looked to the side. "Well… The enemy eventually retreated but few times during the rest of that battle, Chifuyu realized that she needed a successor. So she eventually choose Mélissa."

Charlotte nodded. "I see. What about your own stories?"

"There really isn't much for me to tell actually. Besides training and the videos you saw of my… berserking, that's really it."

Charlotte looked at the clock, seeing that it was already eleven pm. "Oh my, I'm sorry. Good luck tomorrow for our exams."

Kenneth gave a small smile and chuckled. "Thanks. You too Char."

Sorry about the delay guys, but College has been a killer. I hoped to get more out but I just couldn't I apologize for that. Thank you though for your reviews and whatnot.

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